Tuesday, 23 June 2020 Summer Storytelling! Happy Folklore Thursday, Tales-lovers! After a long spring lockdown's weekly stories, Brother Bernard has slipped back into his cave, but left a whole barrage of tales to enjoy at your leisure: TALES OF BRITAIN: THE SERIES! From Three Bears to Three Pigs, taking in Taliesin and Jack, Dildrum and Doldrum, seals,…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Autumn 2019
THURsday, 19 December 2019 Thank You – For Auld Lang's Syne MERRY YULE, Folklore Funsters! We know there's officially no Folklore Thursday this week, but as autumn ends and a new decade begins, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped make this launch year for us, after 15 years of hard…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Winter 2019
Rhymes Of Britain Wednesday, 20 March 2019 Happy musical Folklore Thursday! Only four days to our first ever London show – and nine to our Bath book launch! We dearly hope to see you at one of them if you're anywhere near the bottom half of this island... We should just take a moment to…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Spring 2018
With TALES OF BRITAIN, the first British folktale anthology to be released in decades, nearing publication, it seems timely to migrate all the weekly blogs going back to the launch at Glastonbury in 2017 to a safer place, as Nuada knows what Unbound does with them after publication. I’ve made attempts to keep references intact…
Tales of Britain #1
It's time to come out of the scriptorium – yes, I am Brother Bernard. And my fifth book project, just launched on Unbound, is http://www.TalesofBritain.com. A lot of people have been kind enough to say that ToB is a fantastic idea. But it's more the case that it's a HORRIFIC idea that there's currently nothing…